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Page 174 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.
Page 106 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Page 41 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 27 - I beheld, and lo ! a great multitude, which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues...
Page 42 - Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard : I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Page 207 - But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; " and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.
Page 103 - Howbeit, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Page 218 - Thou shalt shew me the path of life; in thy presence is the fulness of joy : and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore.
Page 16 - ... can relieve it; the voice of sin to him who alone can pardon it. It is the urgency of poverty, the prostration of humility, the fervency of penitence, the confidence of trust. It is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It is the ' Lord save us we perish' of drowning Peter; the cry of faith to the ear of mercy.
Page 172 - God would grant them according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might in the inner man...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The spirit of prayer, selected and compiled by herself from portions on that subject in her published volumes |
| Author | Hannah More |
| Edition | 9 |
| Published | 1836 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2006 |
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